The following reply was made to PR pkg/45809; it has been noted by GNATS.
From: Bernd Ernesti <netbsd%lists.veego.de@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Cc:
Subject: Re: pkg/45809: graphics/libggi fails packaging on
NetBSD-5.1_STABLE/i386, pkgsrc-2011Q4
Date: Sun, 22 Jan 2012 23:33:49 +0100
On Sun, Jan 22, 2012 at 10:20:04PM +0000, David Holland wrote:
[..]
> Ok, so we're using the builtin libXxf86dga but xf86dgaproto from
> pkgsrc? No wonder it isn't working.
>
> This seems to be because the API_DEPENDS in bl3.mk for libXxf86dga
> says >=1.0.1 (netbsd-5 has 1.0.2; current has 1.1.2) so that's
> accepted, but for xf86dgaproto it's >=2.1 (netbsd-5 has 2.0.3; current
> has 2.1) so that isn't accepted and it takes the one from pkgsrc.
>
> never mind that it's more important to use matching versions of the
> two packages than the most recent versions.
So changes like the recent one for pkgsrc/x11/gtk2/options.mk is asking
more more trouble.
Bernd